linux-kernel - Re: [patch 02/26] Fix ARM to play nicely with generic Instrumentation menu

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:23:43 -0500
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	ananth@...ibm.com, dhowells@...hat.com, jdike@...toit.com,
	sam@...nborg.org, Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@...ial.fi>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, phil.el@...adoo.fr,
	oprofile-list@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [patch 02/26] Fix ARM to play nicely with generic
	Instrumentation menu

* Russell King (rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk) wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:27:08PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > The conflicting commit for 
> > move-kconfiginstrumentation-to-arch-kconfig-and-init-kconfig.patch
> > is the ARM fix from Linus :
> > 
> > commit 38ad9aebe70dc72df08851bbd1620d89329129ba
> 
> Since we have changes which depend on the location of these options,
> please hold off until the ARM tree merges in the next window:
> 

Can you add me to the CC list of this patch please ?

> ----------------------- arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation -----------------------
> index 63b8c6d..453ad8e 100644
> @@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ config OPROFILE_MPCORE
>  config OPROFILE_ARM11_CORE
>  	bool
>  
> +config KPROBES
> +	bool "Kprobes"
> +	depends on KALLSYMS && MODULES && !UML && !XIP_KERNEL
> +	help
> +	  Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
> +	  execute a callback function.  register_kprobe() establishes
> +	  a probepoint and specifies the callback.  Kprobes is useful
> +	  for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
> +	  If in doubt, say "N".
> +
>  config MARKERS
>  	bool "Activate markers"
>  	help
> 
> 
> -- 
> Russell King
>  Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
>  maintainer of:

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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